Tento autor sa zaoberá hlbokými otázkami ľudskej morálky a prežitia, zasadenými do sveta, kde hranice medzi vedou a skazou sú nebezpečne tenké. Jeho diela skúmajú, ako jednotlivci a spoločnosti reagujú tvárou v tvár hrozbám, ktoré presahujú bežné chápanie. Ponúka znepokojivý, ale prenikavý pohľad na možnosti ľudskej vynaliezavosti a jej potenciálne katastrofálne dôsledky. Jeho písanie je výzvou k zamysleniu sa nad zodpovednosťou vedy a nad našou kolektívnou budúcnosťou.
In this terrifying, fast-paced account of tests and leaks, lab accidents and deadly disasters, KGB threats and assassinations, the former head of the Soviet germ warfare program lifts the lid on the largest covert biological weapons program in the world, which has tons of deadly viruses ready to be released.
Read and be amazed. . . . An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware.--Robin Cook, author of Contagion Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds of mass destruction--by doctors who had committed themselves to creating a biological Armageddon. Biohazard is the never-before- told story of Russia's darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded Cold War secret. No one knows more about Russia's astounding experiments with biowarfare than Ken Alibek. Now the mastermind behind Russia's germ warfare effort reveals two decades of shocking breakthroughs . . . how Moscow's leading scientists actually reengineered hazardous microbes to make them even more virulent . . . the secrets behind the discovery of an invisible, untraceable new class of biological agents just right for use in political assassinations . . . the startling story behind Russia's attempt to turn a sample of the AIDS virus into the ultimate bioweapon. And in a chilling work of real-world intrigue, Biohazard offers us all a rare glimpse into a shadowy scientific underworld where doctors manufacture mass destruction, where witnesses to errors are silenced forever, and where ground zero is closer than we ever dared believe. Praise for Biohazard
Über das erschreckende Ausmaß und die fürchterlichen Möglichkeiten des "Bakterienkriegs" weiß niemand so gut Bescheid wie der frühere Erste Stellvertretende Direktor von Biopreparat, der 1973 gegründeten sowjetischen Behörde für die Erforschung und Herstellung biologischer Waffen. Ken Alibek rechnet mit seiner eigenen Direktorium-15-Vergangenheit ab und räumt auf mit der Verharmlosung der heimtückischen Biowaffen. Fazit: sie sind nicht aus der Welt zu schaffen, aber wirksam zu bekämpfen. Politik und Forschung müssen endlich handeln.§Der exklusive Insider-Report über biologische Waffenkriegführung.